Rating: 3.0/5

Pulimurugan review
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BehindWoods.com 2.75/5

Mohanlal is awesome as ever, be it humor, sentiments or mass. The swiftness he displays in fighting sequences is not something you see from any regular 56 years old.

Puli Murugan is the first independent screenplay by Udayakrishna of the Udayakrishna-Siby K Thomas scriptwriter duo and even though it is the universal hub of cliches, there are many humorous and thrilling scenes in it. There is everything in the movie that you expect from a mass entertainer, but it does fall short when compared to Mohanlal's previous onscreen avatars.

Mohanlal once again proves that age is just a number, with the spectacular performance in the movie. Pulimurugan is surely a perfect treat for the action movie lovers and Mohanlal fans. But as a film, it has its own flaws, which will disappoint the movie lovers.

In the first half, Mohanlal though looks old to play the part, and his energy and screen presence is found lacking. However, by the second half, his character is fleshed out and the protagonist truly delivers. The movie doesn’t have any punch dialogues but has enough charismatic scenes to have the fans raving about.